Claim Your Facebook Fan Page Custom URL Today
The glorious day is upon us, you can now claim vanity URL’s for Facebook Fan Pages.
Earlier this month, Facebook allowed users to grab custom URL’s for their own profile pages. For instance, you can find me on Facebook at Facebook.com/JustinWise:
A much needed, and much appreciated, change from the endless string of numbers that used to make up your profile URL:
(If you haven’t yet grabbed your custom URL, head to Facebook.com/username and get to it!)
Now, if you’re an admin for a Fan Page, you can grab custom URL’s for those too. (The group has to be more than 100 members, though.)
For instance, I’m an admin for the fan pages of my church’s three different campuses: Hope West Des Moines, Hope NorthBranch, and Hope CityBranch. Before, we were having to use URL shorteners to easily tell people about the page. Forget trying to tell people the actual URL of the page, most pages have something that looks like this:
Now, we have easily identified URL’s on Facebook for two out of our three campuses:
- Lutheran Church of Hope, West Des Moines is now: Facebook.com/HopeWDM (Which is nice, because our website is HopeWDM.org)
- Lutheran Church of Hope NorthBranch is now: Facebook.com/HopeNorthBranch
- Lutheran Church of Hope CityBranch will be: Facebook.com/HopeCityBranch (CityBranch needs a few more members and then we’re ready to rock!)
Brand recognition, URL brevity, and the power of Facebook–what could be better? Are you an admin for a page on Facebook? Hurry up on over to the site and grab your organization-specific URL now. (And if you procrastinate and don’t get what you want, don’t say we didn’t warn you!)
I do believe you can get custom URL's for pages now with only 50 fans (maybe less)… I have one for my novel – http://www.facebook.com/stpetersbrewery and there are only 51 fans right now.
Yup, it's a hot seller!
Thx for the info, Justin.
(…was looking for Facebook Fan Page URL help)
The number is 25 fans, before you can have a custom URL
First, just want to say that your blog looks very professional, and nice. good work mate. i like what you did here!
How do you set the custom URL for fan pages once you have 25 members?
How do you set the custom URL for fan pages once you have 25 members?